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Re: wordexp bug

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: Peter Rosin <peda at lysator dot liu dot se>
Cc: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>, newlib at sourceware dot org, cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:25:10 -0600
Subject: Re: wordexp bug
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On 08/17/2012 01:49 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2012-08-17 15:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> AFAICS wordexp(3) is completely broken, returning WRDE_SYNTAX no
>> matter what I supply as the string.  STC attached.
> 
> I suspect you are using Cygwin, and if so I suspect that we have been
> bitten by this change in bash-4.1-rc:
> 
> c.  The (undocumented) --wordexp option is no longer included by default.

Eeep.  Thanks for bringing this to my attention.  Delegating the work to
an external process feels awkward, but is certainly easier to maintain
than reimplementing the function from scratch in newlib.

> The documentation states that you have to enable the WORDEXP_OPTION
> when building bash, but I'll leave the details of how to do that to Eric,
> the Cygwin bash maintainer.

Yeah, I can figure that out.

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